It took me far too long to realize this tweet was about an actual suit and not some tanooki style gay powerup

The middle 4 bullets are standard practice for our current epstein overlords and the top bullet is the Christo-fascist wet dream. At least we get dogs?

…Well, as long as you hide them from Kristi Noem…

Stop. Stop it. No. Bad scientist.

Not sure where you’re reading that into my comment, the USA is right up there with most developed countries. Using that as a proxy for “culinary development” it’s in the mix with most European countries (coincidentally slightly above Spain by 2/3 metrics).

So you either subjectively hate USA cuisine for some reason or are unfairly comparing the two (eg. Average meal in Madrid vs NYC Midwest McDonalds)

Again, 90% of the world doesn’t live in the culinary cradle that is the Mediterranean Sea and Fertile Crescent while also having the funds to support a diverse and interesting diet. About 30% of the world is food insecure. Rice, wheat and maize alone are about 2/3 of human caloric intake. 15 crops account for 90% of all human energy intake.

Food as hobby or art or cultural distinction is a rich country game. If you’re going to exclude special occasion (or “rich person”) food then you’re deluding yourself to think that food in the USA is worse than any but a handful of countries.

I am not judging food culture based on what the rich can afford, or for one special meal. but for what everyone eats

I’ve got bad news then: 90% of everyone’s food fucking sucks. Hope you enjoy the fine cuisine of flatbreads, rice, and an occasional dish that stretches an animal protein so thin you forget it’s there. If you’re lucky there might be some months old fermented junk to season it.

Or maybe you’re just racist and assume that every noble savage has access to fresh fish, fruit and veggies year-round?

Things like cane sugar could never grow anywhere near a Northern climate. If you want that to influence an entire continent’s food you can only do that through an incredibly unfair deal (like cash crop colonialism).

You certainly don’t get a ton of culinary creativity when you’re paying a fair (read: expensive) price for goods grown halfway around the world. They’re too precious to be anything but a novelty for the rich.

Post office only gets paid because some portion of people do open them; they would make much more money if everyone did.

If everyone throws away junk mail there’s no money, if everyone blocks ads there’s no money. It’s the same system but with better attribution for impressions.

Is throwing away unopened junk mail stealing from the post office? Its the exact same thing

Fantastic write up. Degrowth is, and always has been, the only option on our pale blue dot. The only question is when we realize that and how hard we make it. Spoiler: too late and incredibly hard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive_Slave_Act_of_1850

Why do all knives not say Nazi?

Oh missed that, thanks. Thought video only included cameras since screenshare wasn’t in the bullet points

Are there any options out there with screen sharing yet? Last I checked stoat was dragging their feet on it

The coverage is fine but the phrasing of these articles is downright subversive. Every single headline should be “Trump pretends he can cancel midterms” or “Trump hallucinates authority to change state voting laws”

Things like “…threatens to order new laws” or “…floats canceling election” or “…nationalize voting security” only serve to muddy the conversation. These things are explicitly not within his power and never will be possible (barring a farce amendment push, which can’t happen before November). He cannot do them even if he pretends to do them.

The only thing that could happen is blatantly unconstitutional election interference (probably by force). Add that as a tagline to every article. Then when people show up to ICE goons monitoring their polling place their first thought won’t be “hmmm, must be [Trump’s new law/a canceled election/national voting security]”. They’ll properly think “why tf is this guy here?..”.

They don’t owe the school anything, in fact they’re probably paying a ton of money to be there. If anything, the school should be bending over backward to fight for them.

Let this be a lesson everyone: if you’re going to punch a fascist make sure you don’t stop until his stupid mouth can’t say any more dumb shit

I get that a lot of this linked article is written to (correctly) change the narrative around slavery erasure but some of it delves into baseless hyperbole that can’t be anything but counter productive.

For example:

Evidence suggests that sexual abuse of slaves was so fundamental to chattel slavery that it’s reasonable to assume any histories of “kind” slave owners are complete fabrications designed to preserve the legacy of the masters.

That is either playing fast and loose with wording or an absolutely incredible claim requiring incredible proof.

On one hand, the “kind” slave owner is always a fabrication because the act of owning slaves is inherently immoral and reprehensible. This view makes the claim a borderline platitude; perpetuating an institution that enables rapists is very obviously unkind.

On the latter interpretation, you’re claiming that rape was so universal that any slave owner was almost certainly a rapist (especially if they claimed they weren’t). This would require some sweeping evidence, think studies on the demographics of mixed race slaves or on medical records tied to sexual assaults.

So what evidence follows? Excerpts from Frederick Douglas giving second hand accounts of rape and of Harriet Jacobs giving her first hand account. Nothing that incriminates slave owners broadly beyond Douglas’s phrasing “…in [rape] cases not a few,…”.

I don’t even deny that the evidence might exist, and I would love to see it brought to light if it does. But the thing about slavery, and specifically the USA’s commercial cotton slavery: it’s fucking awful enough if you just list verifiable facts without aggrandizing. Even if everything in this article were true, it doesn’t move the needle much farther beyond the baseline of American slave ownership.

If you’re going to broadly claim “America’s founding fathers were sex traffickers that raped children” then please, name names! Bring receipts! You can’t open with…

These facts are not debatable. [Child sex trafficking] happened.

…and then lay out a single link rehashing that Thomas Jefferson was a massive piece of shit. What do we know about the other 54+ Founding Fathers?